The Zifa Northern Region Soccer League (NRSL) — for a long time touted as the best-run of the four regional first division leagues — is taking its approach to business to another level. [GoogleAd] This season, NRSL has embarked on an ambitious project that will see the rebirth of junior football to ensure grassroots development. The…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday gave a rare personal insight into his early life, during which he was involved in subversive activities after seeing his dreams of becoming a pilot frustrated by the racial politics of the time. [GoogleAd] The 76-year-old Zanu PF leader also told youths who attended a two-day conference in Harare how his family…
Matabeleland chiefs fear that the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) could miss crucial evidence on the Gukurahundi massacres of the early to mid 1980s, unless it abandons its current approach which focuses on cities and towns. [GoogleAd] This comes as more traditional leaders in the region are challenging the government to act with speed to…
THE MDC Youth Assembly this week said it regrets the departure of the party’s former deputy president Thokozani Khupe and others early last year. Following the death of the party’s founding father Morgan Tsvangirai in February last year, there were serious ructions in the MDC over his succession. While each of Tsvangirai’s three deputies —…
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa’s opponents claim they will not be able to freely exercise their voting rights at the party’s forthcoming congress, alleging the incumbent is employing unorthodox tactics to cow rivals. [GoogleAd] This is the first congress since the death of the MDC’s founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai who died of colon cancer on February…
Heavy winds tore through Manicaland yesterday, bringing lightning and heavy rain, battering buildings with hail, flooding streets and uprooting trees as Tropical Cyclone Idai barrels towards the country. After making landfall through central Mozambique where it has already killed at least 100 people, leaving thousands homeless and wrecking millions of dollars worth of property and infrastructure,…
THE Southern Africa Trade Union Co-ordination Council (Satucc) delegation has described how they were detained at Robert Mugabe International Airport yesterday and interrogated for hours by six State security agents who demanded details on the purpose of their visit, where they would be staying, whom they were going to meet and issues to be discussed….
CIMAS Medical Aid division managing director Washington Madzivadondo has died. In a statement, the medical aid society confirmed his untimely death pointing out the positive contribution the deceased made towards Cimas’ growth. [GoogleAd] Under his leadership, the division has grown to include the development of products and packages that benefit members from all walks of…
A Harare magistrate has postponed the trial of former Zanu PF bigwig Ignatius Chombo accused of criminal nuisance after wearing regalia associated with the ruling party following his expulsion. Senior magistrate Hosea Mujaya postponed the matter to May 10 pending the outcome of his application for permanent stay of proceedings in the Supreme Court Chombo…
THE State has seized former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s Nyanga house after he absconded trial on corruption charges. The former Zanu PF national political commissar, who is accused of corruptly awarding tenders and parcelling out vast pieces of land to Grace Mugabe’s sister Shuvai Gumbochuma, was issued with a warrant of arrest on January 17…
